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Raw Goods Inventory.
Title:
Raw Goods Inventory.
Author:
Rosko, Emily.
ISBN:
9781587296741
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (95 pages)
Series:
Iowa Poetry Prize
Contents:
Contents -- I. Clearing the Yard -- II. Tongues of -- III. Hanging Out the Wash -- IV. Spare -- Notes.
Abstract:
In Raw Goods Inventory, Emily Rosko gives us a poetic inventory in a virtuosic display of voices and accents. The poems come with sharp elbows and knees; they are nomadic, acquisitive, dispersive, and diffractive. More elementally, Rosko's poems contain the scattered bric-a-brac of the imagination, with goods that range from a dud egg to genetic hybrids, from Marian iconography to pigs at a state fair. She offers honest embodiments of anxiety, awkwardness, and boredom, as she also recasts with wit and grace the standard poetic fare: love, death, and disappointment. Idiomatic, raw, and skewed in the best possible way, Rosko's poetry manages to speak to us---with arresting lyric gusto---of familiar things.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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